No One Still Believes This Was About Health, Do They?

I think we are beyond that point:

We analyzed data from saliva-based COVID-19 screening deployed on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Our dataset is unique in that all SARS-CoV-2−positive individuals reported no symptoms at the time of saliva collection, and therefore were infected but asymptomatic or presymptomatic. We found that 1) the distribution of viral loads observed in our asymptomatic college population was indistinguishable from what has been reported in hospitalized populations; 2) regardless of symptomatic status, approximately 50% of individuals who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 seem to be in noninfectious phases of the infection; and 3) just 2% of infected individuals carry 90% of the virions circulating within communities, serving as viral “supercarriers” and likely also superspreaders.

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Canada should follow Slovakia’s example in enabling widespread, frequent rapid testing to the population to screen themselves for COVID-19, a House of Commons committee heard Monday.

Martin Pavelka, an epidemiologist with Slovakia’s ministry of health, told MPs on the Commons health committee that Slovakian citizens are now asked to get a rapid antigen test at least once per week and must show a recent negative result if they want to enter a workplace or certain businesses such as a bank or post office.

Every week? Really?

I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned with:

Unfortunately, Shi was on track to create viruses far more infectious than she realized, very possibly including SARS2. 

“It is clear that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was systematically constructing novel chimeric coronaviruses and was assessing their ability to infect human cells and human-ACE2-expressing mice,” says Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University and leading expert on biosafety. 

“It is also clear,” Dr. Ebright said, “that, depending on the constant genomic contexts chosen for analysis, this work could have produced SARS-CoV-2 or a proximal progenitor of SARS-CoV-2.” 

This China:

Taiwan will fight to the end for an invitation to a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this month, its foreign ministry said on Monday, but China said there was no room for compromise over the island that Beijing claims as its own.

The rich-nation Group of Seven (G7) has called for Chinese-claimed but democratically-ruled Taiwan to attend the WHO's decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, which meets from May 24.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated that on Sunday and Taiwan says it is urgent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Taiwan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou said they had yet to receive an invite.

Buying your way to the trough:

In 2019, despite Justin Trudeau’s public commitment to open nominations, the Liberal Party of Canada decided to protect incumbents granted they meet a lax set of qualifications. These included knocking on 3,500 doors or making 5,000 phone calls, and recruiting 30 new monthly donors. In October 2020, the Liberals whittled that list down to just one farcical requirement. Now, in order to skip the nomination process, MPs must recruit a whopping total of 10 new monthly donors with no minimum contribution. There are literal cats on the internet who can raise more money than that.

Liberals point to it being harder to fundraise and sign up supporters during COVID, but it shouldn’t escape scrutiny that their decision coincided with declining approval ratings and the realization Canadians were about to face a brutal second wave. Moreover, it’s unclear how having a captive audience trapped in their homes makes it harder to reach constituents by phone.

It should also dawn on Canadians that the cops can now drag people out of their cars and arrest them for fun.